Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Bought me a Sendero

Pharmseller: That is just a beautiful Rifle! Good for you.
I hope your Sendero shoots as well as my 270 Sendero does - if so YOU will be very happy with it.
Can't wait for you to let us know how it shoots.
Best of luck to you.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I did.

Then I Googled “Tikka trouble.” That search returned a lot of hits, too.






P

Very nice rifle, my son in law has one just like it. I have two and a 300 Win mag with a 5R Barrel. It’s about the same thing. The others are a 26 Nosler(was a 7 mag) with a Rock Creek Barrel. The other is s 7mm ultra mag. It has a Leupold scope now. These are all great shooters. I’ve had at least 20 Rem 700’s, they have all shot well.

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Excellent, try 180 Berger 's. Vlds or hybrids 64.6. H-4831. Nosler brass or Norma. 210 m primer, That's right 210m. Not mags 26" barrel. .002 off lands, thank me later 😂 4 antelope 420-670 yards two Barbary rams 1-528. 1-565, 1 Elk. 697. All one shot kills. Except Barbary. Bad wind , bad call

I saw a Sendero in 257 Roberts for sale online a couple of nights ago, didnt even know they made them in that caliber.

Thanks for the data. I have experience with 180 Bergers out of a 7mm Rem Mag on a bull, I wasn’t impressed. I got better results from a 162 ELDX.





P

I’ve used Bergers too, also not impressed!

I took the Sendero and one of my Tikkas to the range yesterday.

I’m an idiot. I just want to get that out there at the beginning so we’re all on the same page.

I brought along three different loads, all handloads from my Tikka, just to see what the Sendero liked. Anyone see the problem yet? I sure didn’t.

I put up a target at 50 for the eyeball method of boresighting, and two more at 100. Eyeball, boresight, everything looks good. I put three rounds in the mag, got set up, and tried to chamber a round.

No luck. The cartridge wouldn’t chamber, bolt wouldn’t close. What the heck? Tried a different bullet. Nope. Tried the last bullet type. O-fer.

This doesn’t make sense, I thought. These loads feed like butter in my Tikka...

Lightbulb goes off. The loads I brought with me were neck sized only, fired in the Tikka. Of course they feed in the Tikka, they’re custom loads. No surprise they won’t fit a different chamber!

Good thing I brought the Tikka, at least I got to shoot a few. It reinforced the accuracy of the 162 ELDX. I also discovered that the Tikka didn’t care much for the 180 VLD Hunting.





That’s four shots into .527”.

I’m going to buy some cheap Hornady factory loads and 100 Hornady empties and hit the range again next week.

Duh.





P

Never had good accuracy from Reloader powder with Bergers . But the 4350's and 4831's shoot tight . One thing that some people don't seem to like is often the Bergers don't exit . But my experience has been massive internal damage and usually dead with in seeing distance of were the shot took place .
Kenneth

If Berger was the only bullet I had, I’d be satisfied.

I’ve had better results with the ELDX.





P

Bergers are deadly if hit in the heart-lung area.

An old hunting buddy wanted one in 300UM when they came out, but got tired of waiting, finally bought one in 300 Weatherby. Made fun of him at the time, because he'd already had a 40XB in 7mm Rem Mag and a custom in 7x300 Weatherby for years. Said he was ready for a 30 caliber.

Sub one inch groups at 300 yards with his 150 Btip loads. Poor devil passed away the following year, never really got a chance to wring it out.

Ah dubePA, some great riflemen in Pa... Some of my early mentors were fantastic rifle shots..

I bought a box of Hornady Whitetail ammo and ran it through the Sendero. All cartridges fed and ejected fine.





P

Sounds a lot like an older gent that I knew, use to shoot woodchucks near an old cemetery in Potter, bordering NY and PA. His name was Sam.

I like both the 162 amax and eld in the factory twisted tubes.

SD

Great gun, I have owned one for years in 7 stw. She has done her job on multiple deer elk and hogs. Shoots sub moa. Only thin is with age I have come to not relish a days hunting with that 14 lbs. Bringing along a t3 superlite to lose some weight in the field. Partitions and accubonds were her fav for years. Havent fed her a hornady. Good luck with yours gonna be a shooter.

I got my tuned trigger from 805 last week. Maybe a range session is in order.





P

I may be the exception to the rule of these guns shooting well. I've owned two, a 7 RM and a 300 WM. Both would have been adequate as hunting guns but neither shot noteworthy groups. Sounds like I got the lemons off the tree.

Jim

I know 5 or 6 people that own Sendero’s in different calibers. They are all happy with their rifles.